The page appears to be currently frozen in time, so no new calls are updating at this moment. But when it gets fixed, a department spokesman tells us we will no longer see any details related to ambulance calls.

“It will still say EMS incident,” said DFR Lt. Joel Lavender. “It just won’t tell you exactly what happened. You’ll know the hundred block instead of the actual physical address.”

Attorney General Greg Abbott has previously said the city is a “repeat offender” in limiting access.

The Barking Dog aka Avi Adelman is barking about this one.

“Blaming everything on HIPAA is an easy scapegoat method that needs to be stopped,” Adelman writes on his blog. “Or simply stated, better to post too much (legally released) information than not enough.”